One Antler Buck

I got pics of this buck last winter. Once in early December and again in early February. If I would have only gotten the February pics I would have just thought the he had shed the antler on the right side. But being that it was already gone in early December I'm guessing that it was broken off fighting. You can't get a good look at the pedicle to see if it was broken off flush or if something else had happened to it. No one saw him live so I got no help there.


I enjoy the snow pics just not the snow. We haven't had much more than flurries but I heard on the news today that some of the counties across the mountains from me in West Virginia have up to 30". That's a good 25" to 28" more than I want to see...great pics or not :).

One Ball - Dog vs Deer

Karen, over at Gordon Setter Crossing, posted a most see video of a dog and deer playing on her blog. Go check it out at One Ball - Dog vs Deer. It's great.

Resting Fawn

It appears that the luck I had last month in hunting season has carried over to my camera trapping... bad luck that is. I noted that I had relocated all of my cameras last Sunday and was expecting great things :). I checked the cameras a day earlier than normal because of the forecast bad weather and I'm going to a basketball game tomorrow afternoon. I only had 15 pics on the first camera I checked. That was O.K. because it was in a opening in thick cover where I didn't expect a lot of pics. I was hoping to catch one of the big bucks using the trail. The next two are both in major deer travel corridors and I expected some good pics. The end result was one small buck and a doe on one camera and not a single deer on the other :(. But that just how it goes. So I dug back through my pics and found some of a fawn and it's mama that I hadn't posted. Hopefully next week will be a better week for the camera traps.

Mock Scrape Grade

Well my mock scrape wasn't the wild success I had hope for but it did attract a few small bucks. So I'm going to give it a C rating. Actually it seemed to attract more does than bucks. I took the dripper down and moved the camera Sunday so it's officially shutdown. I think next year I'm going to try putting it on one of the logging roads or on the edge of a field instead of in the woods.